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The creative industries in North Rhine-Westphalia are a considerable economic factor: in 2015 about 300,000 employees and around 51,600 companies achieved sales of € 26bn – not only in North Rhine-Westphalia but in international markets as well.

The UNESCO global report “Advancing creativity for employment”, just published in 2017, points out that from 2013 to 2014 alone the value of the global exports of creative industries increased from $212.8bn to $253.2bn. Whether film, music, literature, design, visual and performing arts and architecture as well – these were always in demand internationally, but for about 5 years now digitisation of the creative industries has brought about a demand and a global range that have never been experienced before: whether via digital platforms that claim, for example, to make music, films and games available at anytime and anywhere on mobile phones, whether through a new international logistics system that delivers products from all over the world practically overnight, or through intangible services in design and software, whose markets with a speed of 100 Mbps are local and at the same time international in any moment. How and where do the creative industries in North Rhine-Westphalia stand in this global competition – today and in ten years? More info available HERE

About 110 guests participated in the 5th Creative Industries Dialog NRW at the Dortmunder U in January 2018. > More info available HERE

The Creative Industries Dialog NRW is funded by the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.